"IT IS A SHAME"
RELIEF WORKERS AND DRINK
INDIGNANT MAGISTRATE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ' • CHEISTCHUBCH, This Day. In fining two ■ relief workers, Francis William Menzies, aged 37, and Alexander Braid Blance, aged 34, £2 each, in. default fourteen days' imprisonment for the conversion ■of a car, Mr. E. D. Mosley, .S.M., said: "According to the Court records during past months there ha\-e been a number of these men on relief works before me. A large proportion are decent fellows, but a small proportion are wasting their earnings in drink. It is a shame that this should occur, and that private and public money is'being wasted on men of this kind."
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 63, 16 March 1931, Page 10
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